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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something no one can take away.

When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records.

I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.

Making your own records is really satisfying in the sense that you more or less get to do what you want. It may not sell or whatever, but on an artistic level, the only people that you really have to fight with are the people in your own band.

I've been working on my own music. I've been writing an album, stuff that's kind of personal to my own life.

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.

It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs.